Top scientific report: catastrophic and irreversible environmental damage will be caused by crossing ''nine planetary boundaries''; 3 have already been exceeded - climate change, species loss and nitrogen cycles.

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In the last year countries bailed out the financial system to the tune of several trillion dollars - bailing out our planet is far cheaper: between 2010 and 2015, $20bn dollars is enough to cut tropical rainforest loss by 25%.

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Scroll down to "Alternative Route": "THE endangered southern bandicoots are going to be wiped out of The Pines by Peninsula Link [Melbourne, Australia] ... another species that could be endangered instead... "

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced today that it will deny the polar bear the appropriate and necessary protections of the Endangered Species Act (ESA); Defenders of Wildlife: "a mockery of ESA".

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Nearly all Homo sapiens are obedience machines. That is to say, they are nothing but rule creatures -- in other words robots and morons. Is there an alternative? Certainly, but few choose it.

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Elitist greed is killing the planet and murdering human civilization. These vampires are bleeding Mother Nature (and our wallets) dry. They are literally pushing the human species toward extinction, and yet our collective human sloth looks on with passivity and stupor.

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The Extinction Watershed

August 8, 2007 became a watershed because of the deplorable news of the probable extinction of the legendary 'Goddess of the Yangtze', the Baiji or 'Yangtze Dolphin'.

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The western lowland gorilla is one of many new additions to the World Conservation Union (IUCN)'s 2007 Red List of Threatened Species, which was made public today.

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A Canadian researcher has determined that the primary cause of the bison near-extinction was the export trade in buffalo hides to feed European demand.

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An interdisciplinary team of McGill researchers has uncovered a connection between growing economic inequality and an increase in the number of plant and animal species that are threatened with extinction.

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Quolls and other small native mammals could make great domestic pets - every bit as enjoyable as cats, dogs and rabbits - with revenue from sales helping conserve their endangered counterparts in the wild, according to a Sydney vet.

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Two shipments of a precious cargo will leave Hobart next month, potentially taking with them the future of an entire species.

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If fishing around the world continues at its present pace, more and more species will vanish, marine ecosystems will unravel and there will be

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